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medical illustration of The trick to fitting 2 meters of DNA into a 0.000006 meter wide nucleus *and* keeping it organized? Loops. Lots of loops. This 1.5 page spread for Scientific American illustrates the relationship of DNA to chromatin, the density of chromatin packing in the nucleus, and schematically show how chromatin loops are formed that both prevent entanglement and allow for gene regulation.
Next medical illustration of Vaccine nanoparticle explainer for Scientific American, using a mixture of 2D and 3D illustration styles to show a potential vaccine design for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

Vaccine nanoparticle

The trick to fitting 2 meters of DNA into a 0.000006 meter wide nucleus *and* keeping it organized? Loops. Lots of loops. This 1.5 page spread for Scientific American illustrates the relationship of DNA to chromatin, the density of chromatin packing in the nucleus, and schematically show how chromatin loops are formed that both prevent entanglement and allow for gene regulation.

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